Why it works: Chicken and liver work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 383 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Roast Chickens
Ingredients
Directions
Empty the chicken and wash it thoroughly.
Singe the chicken to remove any feathers.
Clean the gizzard.
Cut the skin of the wings and insert the gizzard and liver through the holes.
Turn the pinion under and skewer through the first joint of the pinion and body.
Bring the middle of the leg close to the skewer and run another skewer through the middle of both legs and body.
Insert a skewer through the drumsticks and side.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Chicken + livertop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together383 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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